May 2018 – Feb 2023 · 4 yrs 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Senior member of the London UI team. Managing large projects closely with UX design and product managers; built and maintained frontends for Cloudflare Firewall, Rulesets, DNS, Load Balancing products.
• Parsing of Wirefilter expressions into easy to use firewall rule builder UI.
• Introduction of WebAssembly to decrypt firewall matched payloads.
• Domain Connect integration between Cloudflare DNS and service providers.
• Event tracking and usage analytics throughout the dashboard to inform product decisions.
• Rebuilt error and CAPTCHA challenge pages served by nginx with scale in mind.
• Deployment of new assets on Cloudflare Workers (FaaS).
• E2E testing with cypress with Teamcity CI.
• Implemented various data-rich dashboards driven by GraphQL-driven analytics.
• Scaling up the team by interviewing candidates and mentoring new starters.
• Stakeholder expectation management and technical oversight over other projects.
• React, GraphQL, TypeScript, Webpack, Cypress, React Testing Library, Lua, Styled System.

Jun 2017 – Dec 2017 · 6 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Softchow is the restaurateur Alan Yau’s vision to create an app to own the entire food ecosystem, starting with a taste-driven recommendation platform. First engineer to join the very small team and lead the project’s technology from scratch.
• Architecting and building out a Rails 5.1 RESTful API backed by Postgres on Heroku.
• Implementing JWT to authenticate users and client applications on the platform.
• API backend for managing lists of restaurants including Google Places API integration.
• Design and build of an internal admin system for managing Softchow’s content.
• AWS integration for email delivery, Cloudfront and S3.
• Liaise with external frontend contractor to build a chatbot React webapp.
• Collaborate closely with iOS engineer on shaping the backend and API.
• Devops infrastructure setup (DNS management, environments, monitoring, alerting).
• Working directly with the founder on managing the technical aspects of the product.
• MVP scoping and project management along with designer and founder.
• Rails 5.1, Postgres, AWS, React, Heroku.

May 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom

• E-commerce platform for creating and selling custom business cards. Responsible for building out and maintaining the design template selection pages.
• Build on the React+Redux+Webpack frontend systems, including a brand new admin tool to manage the design templates.
• Work on backend Flask services (Python) with emphasis on improving testing.
• Transitioned away from a legacy Jenkins-based CI to a Gitlab CI, introducing automated Selenium testing within the pipeline.
• Containerising services into Docker containers.
• Mentoring and onboarding of new engineers.
• Python, Flask, Gitlab CI, Selenium, Docker.

Jul 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Golang, Angular, React, Flux, Backbone, Sass, browserify, Jekyll.

May 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Dublin, Ireland

• Daft.ie developer team - May 2012 - April 2013.
• Boards.ie developer team - April 2013 - July 2014.
• PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, LESS, Handlebars, Varnish, nginx.

Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Dublin, Ireland

• HeyStaks personalised search results to deliver collaborative and reputation-based recommendations to any browser. Ported their Firefox add-on into a Chrome extension.